Characters Quote by Kate Braverman

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen…

— Kate Zambreno

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as…

— Gao Xingjian

I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy or as obvious a relationship to power in society, and…

— Todd Haynes

There used to be a category called women's fiction - meaning not too rude, not too much sex, a bit domestic and internal. Women…

— Janet Fitch

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much…

— Peter Straub

I feel like women have an easier time separating from their characters than men do.

— Vanessa Hudgens

My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my…

— Isabel Allende

I don't think there is a need of the categorization 'woman writing'. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when they walk…

— Anita Nair

If you look at most womens writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go…

— Lorrie Moore

When men write women, they tend to write women the way they want women to be, or the way they resent women for being.…

— Simon Pegg

I started out writing romance novels, and that's a side of publishing that's very female oriented. 99.9% of the writers are women, most of…

— Marjorie M. Liu

Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and can only…

— Miranda July